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Sister Sara's Life and Poetry
Nov. 8, 2008
Five in a Row - Down, Down the Mountain
| This week we studied from the book Down, Down the Mountain. Sometimes I wonder if my child will make a connection with the books since some of them are from a different time and lifestyle. I wasn't sure if Appalachia would interest him. This is my paraphrase of what he said. "It's kind of opposite for us and them. We live in the mountains and see the train all the time and we have to go into town all the time to get our food. They live in the mountains and hardly ever go into town and get their food where they are and they never see trains." He also talked about us living in the mountains but I never really thought about us being "mountain people" like the Appalachians are "mountain people" because our lives are more entwined with the outside world. He enjoyed their way of talking and has mentioned several times, once on our way into town, that they would say "We're a-goin' into town." I was surprised the last time we did an Appalachian theme book The Rag Coat that he really got into it and then he really clicked with this study too. I thought that maybe this would be Appalachia overkill especially since we don't live anywhere near the region but I think it just reinforced the Rag Coat lesson from the past and if sometime my student ever gets to go anywhere in the Appalachian region he will already have a nice mental connection with it. Maybe someday we will have to watch a Christy video. |
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